I love this image of the author/illustrator Lauren Redniss with some of the notebooks, sketchbooks and scrapbooks she used in the making of her book Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future.

“Ms. Redniss, who teaches at Parsons School of Design, walked a reporter through her bookmaking process, picking up materials laid out on an ornately carved table. She began by binding a blank book of approximately the same dimensions as the eventual published project, then pasting in bits of text and drawings taken from sketchbooks or made from photographs, playing with different arrangements.

She also drew from a personal archive of images clipped from newspapers and magazines and pasted into notebooks that she has kept for years.”

I wish I could flip through some of those sketchbooks, but I guess I’ll have to settle for the book:

Read more at: For the Author Lauren Redniss, No Such Thing as Bad Weather – The New York Times